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Re: Is this a /^*/ bug?
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From:
Zefram
Date:
March 25, 2013 16:00
Subject:
Re: Is this a /^*/ bug?
Message ID:
20130325155948.GH18166@lake.fysh.org
Tom Christiansen wrote:
>I realize this is nonsense, but I wonder if it is not a bug. Shouldn't the
>overall pattern still fail, not succeed?
No, the behaviour looks correct to me. /^*/ will match beginning-of-line
zero or more times. In your example, the pattern matches completely
when this repetition count is zero: it's not matching beginning-of-line,
but you didn't require it to.
-zefram
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